Mega Cruise Ships

sailorgirl · Post by **sailorgirl** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:59 am

Just saw an atricle in Virgin ISalnds Daily News. CA Harbor is being dredged to allow entry for those ginormous ( SD's word) new cruise ships. Maybe we should paper the dock with that article about how bad crime is on St. John so they will stay away.

California Girl · Post by **California Girl** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:27 am

I took this picture of one of those mega ships leaving Puerto Vallarta. I truly can't imagine 2 or 3 of these sitting in Charlotte Amalie! Yikes!!

mbw1024 · Post by **mbw1024** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:33 am

what the heck is that?

sailorgirl · Post by **sailorgirl** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:36 am

California Girl wrote:I took this picture of one of those mega ships leaving Puerto Vallarta. I truly can't imagine 2 or 3 of these sitting in Charlotte Amalie! Yikes!!

I'd rather not imagine it!

California Girl · Post by **California Girl** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:37 am

mbw1024 wrote:what the heck is that?

MB, if I remember correctly it was the Queen Victoria.

tjwgrr · Post by **tjwgrr** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:58 am

They want STT's docks and port to be capable of receiving Royal Caribbean's new Genesis class ships. Oasis of the Seas, the first of three Genesis class ships being built:

http://www.oasisoftheseas.com

She will have a park intended to have greenery, a mall-like boardwalk, zip line, and much more.

5400 guests
220,000 gross tons
Length 1,181'
Beam 154'
Height above waterline 213'
Draft: 30'
Power 8 17,500 HP engines (that's 140,000 HP!)

I'm not a cruiser, but I have to admit it will be pretty impressive.

loria · Post by **loria** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:12 pm

tjwgrr wrote:They want STT's docks and port to be capable of receiving Royal Caribbean's new Genesis class ships. Oasis of the Seas, the first of three Genesis class ships being built:

http://www.oasisoftheseas.com

She will have a park intended to have greenery, a mall-like boardwalk, zip line, and much more.

5400 guests
220,000 gross tons
Length 1,181'
Beam 154'
Height above waterline 213'
Draft: 30'
Power 8 17,500 HP engines (that's 140,000 HP!)

I'm not a cruiser, but I have to admit it will be pretty impressive.

5400???? holy dinghy batman--that's about the population of my town!

stjhome · Post by **stjhome** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:37 pm

That's more then the entire population of St. John!!

crasherino · Post by **crasherino** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:10 pm

Hopefully its just the lighting of the picture, but doesn't that ship look like a naval vessel?

Forget about the fact that I've sworn that I'll never go on a cruise again, but that thing hardly looks appealing, even if I were interested.

Wakey · Post by **Wakey** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:40 pm

Do not want.

USVISuzyQ · Post by **USVISuzyQ** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:40 pm

Good Grief! That think looks like the Borg thing from Star Trek! ACK!

Sue

Eric in NJ · Post by **Eric in NJ** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:07 pm

Looks like something out of "Close Encounters"

California Girl · Post by **California Girl** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:32 pm

USVISuzyQ wrote:Good Grief! That think looks like the Borg thing from Star Trek! ACK!

Sue

As a trekkie, I'm just dyin' here!!

Your description is so perfect!

Actually, I think crasherino is on to something with the lighting. It was sunset and that is a greatly zoomed picture, so it's probably very "flat". I did see it closer up in port, but I couldn't tell you what it looked like.

cptnkirk · Post by **cptnkirk** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 9:50 am

Gawd I thought that thing was photoshopped looks like a war ship

Who would paint a cruise ship like that

California Girl · Post by **California Girl** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:18 pm

Ok, it looked pretty weird to me too, so I looked it up on the web and here's the same ship, with proper lighting.

My picture was not very flattering, I guess.

But it's still one big friggin' ship!

usvi-on-line

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